SATURDAY 11/29



DENNIS HELD

The poet ("an orange and black tabby/sliced in two") reads his new work. Subud Seattle, 1101 15th Ave, 322-0616, 7 pm, free.

SUNDAY 11/30



PATRICK THIESSEN, STACEY BENNETTS, JAY JAWORSKI, MELANIE NOEL

According to the press materials, Thiessen is a writer who has been trying to get out more on the weekends and Bennetts is a felon. The other two are poets. Victrola Coffee & Art, 411 15th Ave E, 328-4518, 7 pm, free.

TITLEWAVE READING SERIES

Jeanne Heuving, Elizabeth She, Paula Coomer, Rebecca Brown, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Doug Nufer, all contributors to the anthology Northwest Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction, read their work. This is the last event ever for this longstanding reading series. Titlewave Books, 7 Mercer St, 324-6379, 7:30 pm, free.
MONDAY 12/1



MARCUS J. BORG

Borg discusses The Heart of Christianity. St Mark's Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave E, 624-6600, 7 pm, free.

* TOBIAS WOLFF

See review, page 30. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3320, 7 pm, free.

DR. JOEL PRIMACK, DR. NANCY ADAMS

These two smart humans will lecture about new advances in cosmology (you know, space-time relationships, the nature of the universe, and so forth). Seattle Pacific University, Demaray Hall 150, 281-2347, 7:30 pm, free.

* GARRY WILLS

See Stranger Suggests. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, 621-2230, 7:30 pm, $9-$23.

NALO HOPKINSON

The Salt Roads is a novel of "wonder, courage, and magic," says Junot Diaz. Elliot Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

TUESDAY 12/2



ART THIEL

The P-I columnist signs Out of Left Field: Howthe Mariners Made Baseball Fly in Seattle. University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

J. KINGSTON PIERCE

The local historian discusses Eccentric Seattle. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.

YU HUA

The acclaimed Chinese novelist signs To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, the former of which, according to Lisa See, "reaches not only into the very essence of China and the Chinese people, but into the blood-and-bones core of what it means to be a human being." Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

WEDNESDAY 12/3



TERRY BROOKS

High Druid of Shannara is a fantasy novel. University Bookstore, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

GINA NAHAI

Nahai is an Iranian Jew who left her native country following the 1979 revolution. Her novels Cry of the Peacock and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith draw on her family's rich political experiences. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, 888-621-2230, 7:30 pm, free, ticket required.

LAYNIE BROWNE, ROBERT MITTENTHAL

This installment of Subtext Poetry Reading pairs Browne (a novelist and poet from California whose books include Acts of Levitation and Pollen Memory), and Mittenthal, a local poet and critic. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7:30 pm, donations at door.

ANGELA & DUFFY BALLARD

A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple's Trial by Trail, about the Ballards' 2,655-mile journey down the Pacific Crest Trail, chronicles what sounds to me like a nightmare, but apparently it worked out all right for them. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.